Belatedly, this makes me so sad: ['Reading Rainbow' reaches its final chapter].

I loved Reading Rainbow as a kid. (Shocking, I know.) And I can tell you without reservation that it was the TV show that had the most impact on me. I mean, I may have had ridiculous amounts of love for the Thundercats or My Little Pony or other such embarrassing ( Read more... )

OMG, I have just spent two and a quarter hours in a room with three of my heroes, two other awesome people, and an audience of like-minded librarians. I am incoherent with squee, people. My mind is pretty much reduced to askdfklhgh ( Read more... )

I went in to work yesterday, but then I got kicked out for the rest of the week again. *sigh* I need money!! More than just the $5 from the Cheerios box. Srsly, my next paycheck is going to be hilarious, because I only worked two days in that pay period what with finals and the plague, so it'll be less than $80. D ( Read more... )

( 'Inland' by Edna St. Vincent Millay' )

I am looking for suggestions of censorship in children's books. Not censorship of children's books, but rather books about censorship - stories in which censorship of some kind plays a significant role. I am hoping to do a paper on the portrayal of censorship in children's books, but all that can be found on Google relates to censorship of ( Read more... )

ILL, I love you so!

One of my ILL requests came today and now I officially have enough picture books for my term paper! \o/

*zips off to school*

It is so lovely to sit on my squishy carpet with a big mug of tea to ward off the autumn chill, and read delightful picture books.

*wriggles happily*

AUGH why must books go out of print? D:

Sometimes it speaks to their worth, I suppose - no staying power.

On the other hand, Pockets is out of print, and that is one of my favourite picture books ever ( Read more... )

There is nothing like snail mail to make one feel special and loved! Today, I got a package from flyakate. It is a rather belated (or very early) May Day package, which includes an opaque container, many flowery things, and the cutest little beribboned wooden hoop (like those old fashioned hoops people used to whack around with sticks for fun, you know ( Read more... )

So there's this book called Uncle Bobby's Wedding by Sarah S. Brannen. It was published this spring and I haven't seen it myself (yet). But it's about a girl who's favourite uncle is getting married to another man (er, badger? squirrel? mouse? some woodland critter I can't identify, but the point is she's going to have two uncles (well, that's ( Read more... )